Ruling-machine.



PATENTED MAY 1'7, 1904.

"3.13. RBINHARDT. .RULNG MACHINE.

APIPLIATION FILED MAR. 16, 1903.

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UNTTED STATES Patented may 1v, 1904.

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EEIruaAEDr PRESS AND PAPER YORK. i L1 COMPANY', A CORPORATION oEJuEvv`nuLlNG-MAcHiNE.

. SPE(3IIEIlZiA'llION` forming: part oi'- Ltters Patent o, I60,01'?,dated May 1'?, 1904.

,Y Application inea umh 16.71903. serai uq. 147,941. No man.)

i To all' whom [lf 'may conccma l Be it known that L JAMEshI-I.REINHARDT, a citizen of the. United States, and a resident of `EastOrange, Esserrcounty, 'New Jersey,

khave invented certain newgand useful improve.

ments in Ruling-'Machin es, of' which /thefollowingis a specicatioulj.`1 j My'invention relates to improvements mmachineslfor ruling paper, andthe'like, and is particularly' applicable, to vruling downlines-on'billheads, orthe lines running per-` pen'dicvularly to theVcrossn or faint lines.

Heretofore, so far as Iam`aware,fit has been customary to rule downlines on billjheadsindependently of the press upon which the billy headsare printed; and it is the object of my invention to provide a machinewhich maybe used and operated' 1n conjunction with aprintmg machine orpress ,1u such manner `that while billheads are being printed the dovvnlines maybe simultaneously ruledwhereby to aiiord a saving in the costof producing bill-heads. f ln carrying out rvmy invention li provide asuitable frame with means for supporting and'` operating one or moreruling-pens and means for causing the latter to engage and rule thepaper while moving in one direction and to be lifted free from the,paper while moving in the reverse direction, thearrangement being suchthat the machine may be'connected with and operated bya suitable part ofa print- `ing press or machine- -such, for instance, as

shown in Patent No. 721,236, granted to me on February 211, v19O3land insuch relation to such machine that the paper either before or afterbeing printed will pass through or across my improvements, so as to beruled simultaneously with the printing operation;4

My invention also comprises the novel details ot' improvement andarrangements of parts that will be more fully hereinafter 'set forth andthen pointedout in the claims.

Reference is to be'had to the accompanying drawings, forming parthereof, whereiu- Figure l is a side view, partly broken, of a 'machineembodying my improvements. Fig.

2 is a plan view thereof, part being broken away.v Fig. 3 is asectionalview substantialh ou the line 3 3 in Fig. 2.4 Fig. 4is a detail-sectional view substantially on the linee t in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is aperspective View of, part of the means for supporting' the pen. Fig'G isa sectional detail view oi' the pen-supporting means, and-Fig. 7 is'a outheiline 7 7 in Fig. 2. 4

responding parts in the several views.

The numeral 1 in the drawings indicates generally a frame which may beof suitable construction and which is provided on opposite sides withslots or passage-ways v1EL to Vpermit the passage across frame 1 ofsheets or strips of paper or the like 2 to be ruled. Said frame to bereadily attached to or used in connection construction and of the typehavihg an intermittentmotion for producing printing impressions. Theframe 1 is provided with guides 3, upon which are mounted one or moreframes 4:, adapted to reciprocate to carry one or more ruling-pens 5 5.The frames 4 I have shown blocks e", mounted to slide upon the guides 3.The peus 5, which may be of any suitable or wellknown construction forrulingpui poses,l are carried by the frames 4 insuch manner as todescend and act upon the paper 2 during one stroke and to passfreelyover the same on the return stroke, and for this purpose l haveshown an arrangement as foldetail View taken is preferably of suchconstruction to enable it` Similar numerals of reference indicate corlows: To the rods 4 of the frames llare adjustably and removably securedsleeves 6, which are shown provided with slots 6 to pei-'- mit theirready adjustment to said rods, and screws`7 hold them in place upon saidrods, whereby said sleeves may be adjusted to suitable distances apartalong said rods. Upon the sleeves (i are pivotally mounted arms orlevers 8, to which the pens 5 5'L are secured by any suitable means, andthe 'arms 8-are held by a spring or weight in such position that thepeus may engage the paper 2'. y For this purpose I have shown springs 9,carried by thesleeves 6, bearing against pins 8 on in the downwardposition to engage said arms and cause them to rock to lift the pensfrom the paper and whereby when the .p late is raised the arms .will befree to rise to permit the pens to engage the paper. The plate 10 isshown supported by arms 11, pivotally carried within frame 1, and at 12is indicated a cam adapted to actuate the plate 10 at the proper time.An extension 10x from plate 10, having a roller 10", coacts with cam.12.The cam is shown carried by a shaft 13, supported in suitable bearingsin frame 1, and the arrangement is such that during one part of therotation of cam 12 the plate 10 Will be lifted to permit the pens 5 toengage the paper 2, and during another part of the rotation of said. camthe plate 10 will descend and cause the pens to be lifted from thepaper, and such actions take place during the reciprocations of thepens. The arms 11 are shown pivotally supported upon a j rod 14, carriedby lixed supports 15 on guides 3.

In the example of my invention illustrated I have shown means forsimultaneously operating two sets of pens, as 5 5a, for the purpose ofruling simultaneously down lines on opposite sides of the stripl orpaper 2, whereby the paper 2 after being ruled can be slit or cut intoseparate bill -heads The means of supporting the pen or pens 5 aresubstantially the same as that described with respect to the pens 5, anda plate 10, corresponding to the plate 10, is pivotally supported abovethe arm 8 of pen 5JL by means of arms 10", pivoted upon a rod 16,carried lby the supports 15. To operate both plates 10 10usimultaneously by cam 12 and to support said plates in their normalinoperative p ositions, 'Y

as 10, and above the same, as shown in Fig. l

7, provides an arrangement whereby as cam 12 raises plate 10 the arms11, rocking on their pivotal rod 14, will cause the arms 10b tocorrespondingly raise plate 10, (such operation of both plates beingsubstantiallysimultaneous,) and when the cam releases plate 10 bothplates will simultaneously descend.` "The operation vof arm 8 of pen 5with respect to n of showing that a single pen or a plurality ofV pensto produce correspondingly long and short lines and Ialso interrupted orbroken lines, according to the character of the 'special ruling to bemaden' To produce such retrolling-theraction of the pens, and to thisend I have shown cams or projections 17, carried by the plates 10 10a inline with the arm or arms 8. Th se cams or projections 17 may be ofsuitab e length and have suitable shape to cause the corresponding arms8 to rock to the desired extent and at the desired time. The cams orprojections 17 are also preferably made adjustable in the direction ofthe stroke of the pens, and. to this end I have shown the plates 1010.slotted at 10d to receive screws 18, that connect with the cams orprojections 17 and pass through said slots.` The cam or projection 17will be placed in line with the desired pen or pens, and adjusted to thedesired position with respect to the stroke of the pen, so that when theplate or plates 10 10EL are raised to permitthe pens to act on the paperthe appropriate cam willengage the corresponding arm 8 at a certain timeof the stroke to raise the pen from the paperlv., The cam may be suchthat the pen can drop upon the paper at any desired point or points ofits stroke, making interrupted or broken lines, or the pen can be heldabove lsults, I provide means for independently con- IOO the paper for aperiod after the beginning of its stroke and then dropped, or raisedafter part of its stroke, or in any suitable manner to produce thedesired line or lines.

While any suitable means maybe provided for reciprocating the pens, thearrangements I have shown` provide for reciprocating the penssimultaneously in opposite directions, or, in other words, the pens 5 5aare arranged to simultaneously move away from each other toward theopposite edges of the strip or paper 2 and next return toward the centerthereof simultaneously, and so on alternately. To this end I provideshaft 13 with a crank 20, that is connected by a link 21 with arockerarm 22, secured to a shaft 23, pivotally carried by and extendingacross frame 1, and to said shaft 23 on opposite sides are secured arms24, that connect by links 25 with the adjacent heads or blocks 4. Bysuch arrangement as crank 20 rotates in the direction of the arrow inFig. 1 the pen-support 4 for pens 5 will be reciprocated across thepaper or strip 2. To simultaneously reciprocate the support 4 for thepen or pens 5, I

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Y provide a shaft 23, supported similarly to shaft 23, and which islprovided with arms 24a, connected by links 25l1 with the blocks tb y ofthe support for pen such 'j parts being similar to those described with`-"..unison' in opposite directions, and for this `'purpose Irhave shownthem provided, respectively, with intermeshing segmental gears 26 Theforegoing arrangements are such thatthe pens -5 5fL will be reciprocatedsimultaneously toward and away from each other.

While the ruling-machine above described maybe operated by suitablemeans independently of a printing-press, the arrangements are such thatthe ruling operation may take place during the printing of the paper orstrip 2. l have shown the shaft 13 as provided with a gear 28, adaptedto be operated by suitable means, and particularly to be operated byany-suitable driving part of a printing-press provided with areciprocative type chase or platen, as shown, for instance, in my patentabove named. ln such caser the arrangement will be such that While thepaper 2 is held in the press for the printing impression to be made theshaft 13 will be so rotated that the pens 5 or 5, or both, will be movedacross the .paper to produce the desired down lines thereon, cam 12having raised .plates 10 10, (the paper2 having been fed to positionbeneath the pens from or toward'the printing-press by the paper-feedingdevices ot' the press,) and on the return stroke oi the press, duringwhich time the paper 2 will be l'ed beneath the pens, the crank 2O willcause `the pens to approach each other, the cam l2 and so oncontinuously. I

ot' bill-heads alined. rlhe advantages of my improvements, whereby aplurality ot' bill` heads may be printed and ruled simultaneously by asingle operation of a printing-press and ruling-machine, will beobvious, as there by considerable expense in producing billheads issaved, and a furtheradvantage of my improvements resides in the factthat spe Of course, if desired, asingle bill-- head can be ruled'at onetime or a plurality` cial ruling can be produced by a; mere adjustmentof the pens to the desired positions and the application ofthe cams 17to produce lines of varying length or other form. Of course ruling canbe done by the machine for matter other than bill-heads.

I do not limitmy invention to the particular ldetails ot" constructionand relative arrangements othe parts shown and described, as they may bevariously changed and modilied without departing from the spiritthereof.

Having now described my invention, what i I claim is- 1. Arulinganachine comprising a plurality of pens, independent supports foreach pen whereby each-pen maybe operated independently of the others,means for reciprocating said pen-supports, and means for causing thepens to engage paper while moving in one drection, and to be moved outof engagement with the paper when moving in the opposite Y direction,substantially as described.

2. A ruling-machine comprising a plurality of pen-supports, means forsupporting said pen-supports so that each pen may be ope-r atedindependently of the others, means for simultaneously reciprocating saidpen supports toward and from each other, and means for' causing the pensto engage paper when moving in one direction and to be free from thepaper when moving in the opposite direction, substantially as described.

3. A ruling-machine comprising a reciprocativeframe having a cross-rod,means to"sup port and guide the frame, arms independently roo pivotallycarried by said rod adapted lto actuate pens, means to cause said armsto rock in dependently of each other to permit the pens to engage anddisengage paper to be ruled, and cams to coact with said arms to varythe operating strokes of the pens, substantially as described.

4. A ruling-machine comprising a plurality of pens, independent supportsfor each pen whereby the pens may operate independently I ro of eachother, means to support and reciprocate the supports, means to adjustsaid supports laterally independently of each other, a plate adapted tocoact with said pen-supports, and means to operate said plate to causethe 1 i 5 pens to engage paper when moving inone direction and todisengage the paper when moving in the opposite direction, substantiallya described.

5. A ruling-machine comprising a pen-sup i zo port, means to support andreciprocate the same, a plate adapted to coact with said pensupport,means to operate the platetocause the pen to engage and disengage thepaper, and a cam connected with said plate to control 1 2 5 theoperating stroke of the pen, substantially as described.

6. A ruling-machine comprising a penmsu'pport, means for supporting andreciprocating the same, a'plate along which the pen-support T30 slidesto coact with said pen-support, a cam to rock said plate, and means foroperating said y cam, substantially as described.

7 1n a ruling-machine the combination of a plurality of pen-supports, apair of frames for saidsupports, means for guiding and reciprocatingsaid frames, a pair of plates carried independently of the pen-supportsfor coacting with saidpen-supports,- and means for simultaneouslyoperating said plates to simultaneously control the action of the penscarried by said frames, substantially as described.

8. In a ruling-machine the combination of a plurality of. pen-supports,a pair of frames for said supports, means for guiding and reciprocatingsaid frames, a pair of plates for coacting With said pen-supports,saidvplates being movably connected together, and means for rocking oneof said plateswhereby both plates Will be simultaneously operated,substantially as described.

- upon which the support is pivotally mounted,

means for guiding and reciprocating said frame, means for adjusting saidpen-support laterally along said rod with respect to said frame, andmeans for causing the pen-support to raise and lower the pen withrelation to the paper to be ruled, substantially as described.

11. In a ruling-machine the combination of a pair of frames, means forguiding'the same, pen-supports carried by said frames, rocking armsconnected with said frames, and means for causing said arms to rocktoward and from each other, substantially as described.

12. In a ruling-machine the combination of a pair of frames, means forguiding the same, pen-supports carried by said frames, rocking armsconnected with said frames, gears connected with said arms to operatethem in unison, and lmeans for rocking said gears, substantially asdescribed.

13. In a ruling-machine the combination of a frame, guides therefor, apen-support carried by saidv frame, .rocking arms connected with saidiframe, a crank', connections between said crank and said rocking armfor operating the latter, a plate to coactwith the pen-support, and acam to operate said plate, substantially as described.

14. In aruling-machine the combination of a frame having a cross-rod,means to guide and operate the frame, pen-supports independentlypivotally carried by said rod, so that each may be operatedindependently of thev others and means to operate said supports to raiseand lower the pens with respect to paper to be ruled, substantially asdescribed. v

15. In a ruling-machine the combination of aframe having a crosserod,means to guide and operate vthe frame, sleeves carried by said rod,pen-supports pivotally carried upon said sleeves, and means to operatesaid supports to raise and lower the pens withv respect to paper to beruled, substantially as described.

JAMES H. REINHARDT. Witnesses:

T. F. BoURNu,

I. E. MCKIGNEY.

